The discussion of broadband and the associated stimuli continued occupying the media and the blogosphere. So, I thought to share a number of additional stories on the subject.

Budde blog posted a critical assessment of Britain’s aspiration to have complete broadband coverage by 2012, suggesting that the current plan will be inadequate when the time comes. They also post another critical post by Paul Budde himself, criticizing the top-down regulation of telecos as counter-productive to the bottom-up innovation.

On a related note, the Israeli OLPC project made it to the front page of OLPC news – Great job, Guy!

MICT regulation

ICANN is about to undergo a significant reform and the Internet Governance Project is launching a series of posts about it. Recently they also published a post, which I think gives an example to why debates about Internet Governance should be important to general public. This last example is even more interesting in light of a recent Obama’s order to review “ America’s cyber defence strategy“.

“Iridium Satellite Destroyed in Orbital Collision” – This is first of its kind accident in space, but reading the post and additional media coverage of the case, it looks like garbage collection in space is going to emerge soon as a business opportunity.

“This Printed Newspaper Is Made of Blogs Only” – Another amalgamation of the “old” and the “new”. Seems like an interesting idea to me. I do wonder if they have any copyright issues. For example, if a blogger violates someones copyright and then they reprint it… On a somewhat related note Kent Anderson of the Scholarly Kitchen discusses the state of the newspapers in this blogging-intense age – “You’re Murdering a Newspaper!”